Design and construction of a smart tealeaf plucker

Abstract

In Uganda, tea is done manually. This plucking activity creates damages on plucked tea shoots and excessive increase in diseases which in return affects the health of the people and deterioration tea quality and prices on international market. To overcome these problems, it is proposed to design and construct a smart tea leaf plucker is capable of plucking the standard tea shoots which are the two leaves and a bud from the tea bushed in Uganda tea estates. The significance or contribution of the machine is that it enhances the quality tea leaf plucking with in the country and the neighboring countries.